46, ib., n. 5; ministers asked to the Lord Mayor's feast for the first time for seven years, iii. 460; (1778) 'now there is no power,' iii. 356; (1779) Johnson has no delight in talking of public affairs, iii. 408; Horace Walpole's account, ib., n. 4; (1780), afraid to repress persecution of Papists in Scotland, iii. 427, n. 1; feebleness at the Gordon Riots, iii. 430; (1781), Johnson against it, iv. 81, 100; gives thanks for its dissolution, iv. 139; bunch of imbecility, ib.; successors could hardly do worse, iv. 140, n. 3; timidity, iv. 200; struggles between two sets of ministers in 1784, iv. 260, n. 2. MINORCA, ii. 176; iii. 246. 'Mira cano,' iii. 304. MIRABEAU, 'dramatised his death,' v. 397, n. 1; his motion about Corsica, ii. 71, n. 1. MIRACLES, i. 444; iii. 188. Mirror, The, iv. 390. MIRTH, the measure of a man's understanding, ii. 378, n. 2. Miscellaneous and Fugitive Pieces by the Authour of the Rambler, ii. 270. Miscellaneous Observations on the Tragedy of Macbeth, published 1745, i. 175; praised by Warburton, i. 176; criticism on Hanmer, i. 178. MISDEMEANOUR, defined, iii. 214. Misella, i. 223. MISERS, contemptible philosophically, v. 112; few in England, v. 112; must be miserable, iii. 322; no man born a miser, iii. 322. MISERY, balance of misery, iv. 300; 'doom of man,' iii. 198; hypocrisy of misery, iv. 71; misery of want, iii. 26. MISFORTUNES, talking of one's, iv. 31. Miss, a, v. 185, n. 1. MISSIONARIES, sanguine and untrustworthy, v. 391. MISTRESSES, i. 381. MITCHELL, Mr., English Minister at Berlin, iii. 463, n. 2. MITCHELL, a tradesman, i. 238, n. 2. MOB rule, iii. 383. See RIOTS. Modern Characters from Shakespeare, iii. 255. Modern Characters from the Classics, iii. 279. MODERN TIMES, better than ancient, iv. 217; v. 77. MODERNISING an author, iv. 315. MODESTY, how far natural, iii. 352. Modus, i. 283; iii. 323. MOLIERE, Avare, v. 277; goes round the world, v. 311; Misanthrope, iii. 373, n. 4. MOLINISTS, iii. 341, n. 1. MOLTZER, Jacques, v. 430, n. 2. MONARCHY, iii. 46. MONASTERIES, austerities treated of in Rambler and Idler, ii. 435; bodily labour wanted, ii. 390; Carthusian, unreasonableness of becoming a, ii. 435; their silence absurd, ib.; Johnson curious to see them, i. 365; saying to a Lady Abbess, ii. 435; men enter them who cannot govern themselves, i. 365; ii. 24; monastic morality, iii. 292; when allowable, ii. 10; unfit for the young, v. 62. MONBODDO, Lord (James Burnet), account of him, ii. 74, n. 1; v. 77; air bath, his, iii. 168; ancestors, superiority of our, v. 77; Boswell, letter from, v. 74; Condamine's Savage Girl, v. 110; copyright, v. 72; Dictionary-makers, i 296, n. 3; Egyptians, ancient, iv. 125; Elzevir Johnson, an, ii. 189, n. 2; v. 74, n. 3; enthusiastical farmer, v. 78, 111; Erse writings, ii. 380-1, 383; Farmer Burnet, v. 77, 111; Gory, his black servant, v. 82; helping him downhill, v. 242; Home's Douglas better than Shakespeare, v. 362, n. 1; 'humour, incolumi gravitate,' v. 375; Johnson's Journey, receives a copy of, iii. 102; meets, in Edinburgh, v. 394; in London, iv. 273; no love for, ii. 74, n. 1; ib., n. 2; iv. 273, n. 1; v. 74; pleased with him, v. 83; style, criticised, iii. 173; visits him, iv. 273, n. 1; v. 74, 77-83, 377; Judge a posteriori, v. 45; Knight the negro, case of, iii. 213; 'Monny,' iv. 273, n. 1; 'nation,' his, ii. 219; Origin and Progress of Language, ii. 74, n. 1; 259, n. 5; Ouran-Outang, capabilities of the, v. 46, 248; primitive state of human nature, ii. 259; savage life, admiration of, ii. 74, 147; v. 81; son, his, v. 81; tail, theory of the, v. 45, iii., 330; talked nonsense, ii. 74; v. 111; mentioned, ii. 53, n. 1; iii. 126, 129; iv. 1, n. 1. MONCKTON, Hon. Mary (Countess of Cork), account of her, iv. 108 n. 4; Boswell gets drunk in her house, iv. 109; sends her verses, iv. 110, n. 1; Johnson at her assembly, iv. 156, n. 1; calls her a dunce, iv. 109; promises her to go and see Mrs. Siddons, ii. 324, n. 2; iv. 242, n. 3. MONEY, abilities needed in getting it, iii. 382; advantages that it can give, iv. 14, 126, 152; arguments against it, i. 441; awkwardness in counting it, iv. 27; change in its value, v. 321, n. 1; circulating, happiness produced by its, ii. 429; iii. 177, 249, 292, nn. 2 and 3; conveniences where it is plentiful, v. 61; country, keeping it in the, ii. 428-9; domestic satisfaction, laid out on, ii. 352; economy in its use, iii. 265; enjoyed, should be early, ii. 226; excludes but one evil--poverty, iii. 160; getting it not all a man's business, iii. 182; gives nothing extraordinary, iv. 126; hoarded, iv. 173; increase of it breaks down subordination, iii. 262; increase of it in one nation impoverishes another, ii.